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This set sold out in 1 day in North America. GW apparently had no trouble finding customers eager to buy this set. In fact, my local Battle Bunker was forced to disappoint a number of customers who wanted to advance order this early on Saturday, Nov. 10 as it was already sold out at that point even though it had only been available since Friday morning (US time).

On release day, Saturday, Nov. 17 the same store had only 2 sets to sell and they were gone immediately as there were already customer waiting at the door to ensure they got one.

The separate component pieces went up for advance order this past Friday. As it turns out the sold out bundle deal had about a 30% discount on it over buying what's in it separately so those who snapped it up got a good deal over buying the same product in individual kits.

In other words, this has proven to be extremely popular already and if you missed the great bundle deal at least you can still buy it in component kits.

 Alpharius wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
This is Imperial terrain for an active battlefield, and casualties around trench systems are quite fitting. Look at pics from WW1 and you will see that it is realistic to have dead bodies lying around during a fight, so I can't understand people being upset about it in this case.

Not sure if serious...

TO paraphrase a certain someone, the problem is that the dead Cadians will be present at every single battle all over the place all the time.

It would have been easier to have just left them off and either left the space blank, or maybe use sandbags or, that old standby, skulls.

It would have sold more too.

But then, as this is 'limited', I guess they don't care?

Plus, dead bodies are common but they don't leave them until they rot away and all that's left is bones. You would need to clean up at some point or risk diseases that will kill additional troops, or vermin that could damage your supplies.

 heartserenade wrote:

Plus, dead bodies are common but they don't leave them until they rot away and all that's left is bones. You would need to clean up at some point or risk diseases that will kill additional troops, or vermin that could damage your supplies.

Several viewpoints:

Guardsman: 'Wow, this is what I imagine the inside of the Golden Throne smelling like.'

Chaos Marine: 'See, even they now venerate Him as the Corpse-Emperor.'

Marine: 'Don't die Initiate, or I'll leave your corpse here, and they'll stick you in this Emperor foraken wall.'

 BrassScorpion wrote:
This set sold out in 1 day in North America. GW apparently had no trouble finding customers eager to buy this set. In fact, my local Battle Bunker was forced to disappoint a number of customers who wanted to advance order this early on Saturday, Nov. 10 as it was already sold out at that point even though it had only been available since Friday morning (US time).

On release day, Saturday, Nov. 17 the same store had only 2 sets to sell and they were gone immediately as there were already customer waiting at the door to ensure they got one.

The separate component pieces went up for advance order this past Friday. As it turns out the sold out bundle deal had about a 30% discount on it over buying what's in it separately so those who snapped it up got a good deal over buying the same product in individual kits.

In other words, this has proven to be extremely popular already and if you missed the great bundle deal at least you can still buy it in component kits.

I'm curious what the "print run" on the limited release is.

 malfred wrote:

 BrassScorpion wrote:
This set sold out in 1 day in North America. GW apparently had no trouble finding customers eager to buy this set. In fact, my local Battle Bunker was forced to disappoint a number of customers who wanted to advance order this early on Saturday, Nov. 10 as it was already sold out at that point even though it had only been available since Friday morning (US time).

On release day, Saturday, Nov. 17 the same store had only 2 sets to sell and they were gone immediately as there were already customer waiting at the door to ensure they got one.

The separate component pieces went up for advance order this past Friday. As it turns out the sold out bundle deal had about a 30% discount on it over buying what's in it separately so those who snapped it up got a good deal over buying the same product in individual kits.

In other words, this has proven to be extremely popular already and if you missed the great bundle deal at least you can still buy it in component kits.

I'm curious what the "print run" on the limited release is.

I believe it was three ;-) GW is very gun shy of limited release stuff after shredding over half the copies of dread fleet produced. This way small runs mean they get to congratulate themselves in how awesome there product is as it keeps selling out and to hell with the customer.

This isn't anything like Dreadfleet. Any copies that didn't sell could be sent back to GW for re-packaging (take sprues out of big box, put into smaller boxes).

 Sidstyler wrote:
But you still gave this an 8/10?

Because it’s awesome. All told I’ve got basically 6 feet of modular defensive emplacements. For a terrain junkie like me who loves putting together themed boards, they are fantastic.

Y’know... aside from the half-assed bunker.

 Sidstyler wrote:
Seems odd that they couldn't have made the bunker modular, it doesn't look like it would have been that difficult since the piece with the door on it is almost symmetrical. The useless box on the other end surely could have been made into another piece you could put on either side (or leave off entirely)?

Exactly. I mean I get that they have a limitation on how many sprues they can make a year, that making sprues is expensive, and that for terrain they like to make as few sprues as possible (think of the Skyshield; that’s one sprue repeated 4 times, or the CoD stuff, one sprue for each type of building + one accessory sprue that goes with all three) but they still could’ve made the annex separate on a single sprue.

It’s a real shame they didn’t. :’(